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The Kindness of Strangers
I’m a book lover. I spend WAY too much money on books. The majority of the books I buy are for use in my classroom. I have a collection of thousands of children’s books at school. I buy inexpensive books at garage sales and library sales, but I also shop the bookstores for newly released
Sight Word Workbooks
Generally, I’m not a fan of workbooks. I would much rather play games with kids, which reinforce the concepts they are working on. My daughter is one of these kids who loves to feel like a big kid with a homework book. Don’t get me wrong. She loves the games I have posted about for
Sight Word Practice Center
I love this Sight Word Literacy Center that I bought from Lakeshore Learning. I will admit, it was a little spendy. It was $80. It’s a lot of money for an activity center that helps practice simple sight words. We bought this set several years ago, when my son was in first grade. I had a
Sight Word Memory
My daughter and I have been practicing her sight words. Sight words make up about 90% of our reading vocabulary. To be a fluent reader, it’s extremely important that kids know these words quickly. One of my favorite ways to practice sight words is with the Memory Game. Finding sight word lists is very easy.
Two Of My Favorite Things
We are in the middle of parent/teacher conference week at my school. As I’m sitting, talking with families, I find myself telling them about two things that I think every family really needs at their house. What are those two things? The Leap Frog Letter Factory DVD and the Playful Learning book. Here is a